Recipe Builder

@Ashers783 I make a lot of BBC Good Food recipes (love BBC Good Food ) but I never use the automatic recipe builder - always the manual.

First, there are sometimes quantities that are less than perfect for calorie counting - e.g. a knob of butter, 2 carrots or 2 celery sticks in that recipe. Second, I live in Sweden, so most of the time the ingredient I use may not 100% match the calories or nutrition of whatever they use. Third, I have never used exactly spot on the same amount as they say.

So I much prefer to enter it myself. That way I get to pick the brands I use, and add exactly the weight of my 2 carrots, etc Considering I use a lot of non-British brands I find that quicker than adding the recipe by adding a link and then having to go in and change everything.

I use the builder and then go through and replace the items that are wrong. It's not super convenient but it's better than the old one.

Can you share your made recipes with another users (husband) on their account. I have to make the recipe on both of our accounts every time. So frustrating

Ashers783 wrote: »

Hi, I am fairly new around here so firstly, apologies if this is being posted in the wrong place.

I have tried to use the Recipe Builder but it seems to pick the wrong ingredients, for example I used this link https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/slow-cooker-chicken-casserole

but it told me it was several more calories than it actually is. Am I doing something wrong? Any tips?

Thanks

• You will have to choose an alternate ingredient than the default that gets picked most of the time, which the Recipe builder allows you to do.
• After a while, you'll learn how to word certain ingredients you use a lot to make the one you want come up first. Many times, this requires adding the words "USDA" and "raw". "Pure oil" for me brings up an accurate oil listing first. Adding my initials to the "My Foods" that I've added, and then using my initials when typing in that ingredient in the recipe builder will normally call up my version by default (this is largely useful for dried beans -- there are a lot of wonky highly variable listings in the DB for these). and so on.

example:

knob of butter
½ tbsp rapeseed or olive oil
1 large onion
finely chopped
1 ½ tbsp flour
650g boneless, skinless chicken
thigh fillets
3 garlic cloves, crushed
400g baby new potatoes
, halved
2 sticks celery
, diced
2 carrots
, diced
250g mushrooms, quartered
15g dried porcini mushroom, soaked in 50ml boiling water
500ml stock made with 2 very low salt chicken stock cubes (we used Kallo)
2 tsp Dijon mustard, plus extra to serve
2 bay leaves


to something like:

1T salted butter
0.5T pure olive oil
__g onion usda raw
1.5T king arthur flour
650g boneless skinless chicken thigh raw usda
__g garlic usda
400g white potatoes raw usda
__g celery usda raw
__g carrots usda raw
250g mushrooms raw usda
15g _______ dried porcini mushroom (insert brand name if not from bulk, otherwise try adding usda)
2 cubes Kallo chicken bouillion
2tsp _______(brandname) dijon mustard
__g bay leaves usda